What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

[Anahita]

What would that 'place' be to you? What do you see there?

[Siggie]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

There'd be porn pop-ups! People would just appear out of no where, naked and get into those sorts of poses. I'm Kandi, if you want to see ... follow me...

Oh and what if we could actually block people. See someone annoying and a floating boxing glove punches them in the face, knocking them over.

[Sip]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

I'd move there.

[One-Way]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

Didn't somebody have a TV show episode about this? I think it was Chappelle. It was hilarious. It was exactly like Siggie said.

[karoaper]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

There'd be porn pop-ups! People would just appear out of no where, naked and get into those sorts of poses. I'm Kandi, if you want to see ... follow me...

Oh and what if we could actually block people. See someone annoying and a floating boxing glove punches them in the face, knocking them over.

lol
and then there'd be real world trolls coming into your house and community centers, throwing xxxx everywhere, breaking stuff, annoying and arguing with people for no apparent reasons. Right when the situation would seem hopeless, the manager or the owner would drop kick these trolls into the next century.

[TomServo]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

It would be chaotic. My kind of place.

[Thai-Samurai]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

people would make threads called : what if real life was a real place?

[Anahita]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

I see internetland as something like:

* IRL, people around you are frequently LOLing and ROTFLing and giving you their HO.

* Some guy regularly jumps out of the bushes asking if you’d like to enlarge your penis—even after you’ve deleted him repeatedly (and you’re a girl).

* You perceive a 12 second traffic jam as totally unacceptable.

* Mr. Online Casino and Sir Home Refinance follow you all around town.

* You ‘win’ laptops and iPods almost everywhere you go, but don’t bother to claim your prizes.

* Names aren’t intuitive. e.g., Podcasts do not (as the name seems to imply) require that you have that iPod, that you didn’t claim. Blogs are not slimy green monsters.

* Everyone gets in your house when you use ‘password’ as your password, but even you can’t get in when you forget you change it to S2&pXn16wq8df#ff43e%lo.

*You put most cookies you get into the trash.

* Firewalls do not protect you from flame wars and Trojans aren’t t3h s3cks.

* History classes teach about VAX and Mosaic.

* The lesson your mom tried to teach you: “People have two ears and one mouth for a reason. We should listen twice as much as we talk” loses all meaning, since you rationalize… “Yeah, but I’ve got TEN fingers!”

[One-Way]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

* Everyone gets in your house when you use ‘password’ as your password, but even you can’t get in when you forget you change it to S2&pXn16wq8df#ff43e%lo.

So do people use "password" as their password, too?

I thought it was just me.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: What if 'the internet' was a 'real' place...

What would that 'place' be to you? What do you see there?

Sounds like the sort of "what if" you might find here:
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/